Summary Of A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

Flannery O’Connor’s story about “A Good Man is Hard to Find” can come off to others as a lesson or you can even interpret it in another way. Grandma and her family are on there way to florida but taking one wrong turn might just lead them to a group of bandits that will cause them their lives. The fate of the family was already picked but grandma wanted make the misfit change his mind telling him he's a good man but what is a good man really?
“Being a good person doesn't depend on your religion, your race, your skin color or your culture. It depends on how good is your heart and how good you treat others” Unknown. What really is a good person? I believe that O’Connor was trying to understand what makes a good person and that's really what
People today are spoiled and maybe rotten as well but also back then. “I wouldn't live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks” said june star. June is an example of a rotten person even though she is a kid she has no right to be treating another human being like garbage. Grandma and Red Sammy talk about how you can't trust anyone anymore. Why? Does this have to do with anything with being a good human at all. Well of course it does good people should not lie or hurt others. Is that what a good person is? People can seem like kind human being but deep down they can be the devil themselves and that scares us. “It isn't a soul in this green world of god that can trust,” said Red Sammys wife.”And I don't count nobody out of that, not nobody” she repeats. How do we find those good people that we wish to have around us and who we want to have in our lives. Who are we supposed to trust if we think everyone in our lives are evil. “A good man is hard to find,” Red Sammy said.”Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more” What is happening to today's society? It really affects the way people are acting today in life and is this why we can't seem to find good people in this world? Maybe it's just easier to be rotten then to be
You don't look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people” (Pg 10) “god never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy’s heart was pure gold”. The misfit came from good parent with a great background so what cause this man this good man to become this devil? We look at people around us and we can feel if they are good we get vibes that tell us not to trust someone but even those instincts can fail us sometimes. “I know you're a good man at heart. I look at you and can tell”(Pg 11). The misfit is he really a good man after killing so many people over and over again without feeling anything at all. “I ain't a good man,” the misfit said “But I ain't the worst in the world neither. My daddy said i was different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters. ‘You know, ‘daddy said it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and its others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!”(Pg 11) His father believed that he could do more for himself because he always wanted to know why things happened. What happened that cause this man to do so many horrible actions and is he still a good man after what he done.? His heart may be pure like the grandma said but his soul isnt. The misfit was or still is a good man he was in the arm service both land and sea, married twice, an undertaker and been with the railroads. “I never was a bad boy that I remember of”